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by noisy_boy 3 days ago
Please Firefox, just implement workspaces. I'm tired of 10 windows, that I have created to segregate for each type of browsing, launching at startup and then me accidentally closing one and again having to manually add the tabs back. Don't even need to make it mandatory, just make it optional. Vivaldi has spoiled me with this and it is very hard to switch to another browser that doesn't have it.

Excellent job making containers native. Just go one more step.

2 comments

I'm not a Vivaldi user, but just based off their feature page, you might be interested to check out some of the features/extensions:

1. Firefox's native tab groups [^1]

2. Sidebery's panels (if you don't mind vertical tabs) [^2]

3. Simple Tab Groups [^3]

[1]: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/features/tab-groups/

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

I have used tab groups and found then to be basically eating into horizontal tab space, once I created a bunch. Workspaces don't have that problem. I have tried vertical tabs but never felt comfortable with them.
There is functionality to reopen the last closed window, and also a keyboard shortcut for it. IIRC, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+N (on Windows and Linux).
Yes, it is a saving grace and I do use it in case of accidental closure. However, the workspace feature avoids having to manage multiple windows and generally feels snappier because it doesn't have to load/show all the windows at startup. Coupled with shortcuts to switch workspaces, it just feels more organized.